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Samsung Electronics says its first-quarter operating profit likely jumped 56 percent to a record high

Apple and Qualcomm have finally agreed on something in their messy legal battle. No, they haven't reached a settlement (or anything close) but they have settled on a date for Apple CEO Tim Cook to be deposed. SEE ALSO: W...

Sergei Skripal, a former Russian spy living in the UK, is "improving rapidly" after being poisoned by a nerve agent, according to the latest report by his doctors. But Skripal's pets aren't quite as lucky. British author...

As Virgin Galactic continues its quest to "open" space flight, it completed its first powered test flight since the 2014 crash that killed one of its pilots. Now we have video of the new SpaceShipTwo, VSS Unity, separati...

Will Earthlings will be able to reproduce in space one day? NASA's Mission Micro-11 hopes to find out by launching sperm to the International Space Station.

It was a small but passionate group at the entrance to Facebook's Silicon Valley headquarters midday Thursday. Armed with signs demanding, "Facebook transparency now" and Facebook-esque "dislike" signs, a handful of priv...

Jessica Rosenworcel says the FCC should ensure states' annual emergency alert plans are up-to-date to avoid what happened in Hawaii in January.

Facebook has had a contentious relationship with Brazilian authorities, and its WhatsApp messenger has suffered multiple service bans for failing to cooperate. Two years ago, a court froze around $6 million of the compan...

The Google Lunar XPrize has had an unfortunate history. The competition, which was designed to push independent companies and inventors to create a vehicle which could land on the lunar surface and take some pictures, wa...

Facebook's No. 2 executive says the company should have conducted an audit after learning that a political consultancy improperly accessed user data nearly three years ago.

Today, the Russian government filed a lawsuit to limit the messaging app Telegram domestically, the latest move in an escalating battle between the two. Roskomnadzor, the Russian media regulator, claimed in court that Te...

"Do You Trust This Computer?" is a documentary you can watch on free on YouTube until Sunday.

Astrophysicists from the University of Surrey and the University of Edinburgh have created a new method to measure the amount of dark matter at the centre of tiny "dwarf" galaxies.

In a move that critics claim could drive cryptocurrency trading underground, the Indian central banking authority has announced a ban on offering banking services to anyone involved in trading Bitcoin or its altcoins. Th...

Companies like Virgin Galactic and Blue Origin are aiming to carry tourists into space within the next few years. But, if these tourists want more than just a flight (and they are able to pay the hefty fees that are sure...

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) researchers have developed and tested an optical telescope system that can be used for Earth and space observation.

Three-quarters of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) cases have their origins in poor lung function pathways beginning in childhood. These pathways are associated with exposures in childhood, and amplified by f...

Construction of the space telescope CHEOPS is finished. The engineers from the Center for Space and Habitability (CSH) at the University of Bern will package the instrument this week and send it to Madrid, where it will ...

Humanity’s first luxury space hotel is scheduled to launch in 2021, and it’ll start taking guests in 2022 if everything goes according to plan. Called Aurora Station, the space hotel was announced during the Space 2....

Arianespace on April 5 launched two satellites for telecom operators that for separate reasons were both more than a year behind their original launch schedules. SpaceNews.com

You frequently have to be picky when you get a fast wireless charging pad: a device that tops up your Galaxy S9 at high speed might recharge your partner's iPhone X at a humdrum pace. Mophie thinks it can create some har...

Despite their appearance solar tornadoes are not rotating after all, according to a European team of scientists. A new analysis of these gigantic structures, each one several times the size of the Earth, indicates that t...